Events
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For all events that take place in The Department of Performance Studies, we acknowledge the Canarsie tribe of the Lenape People, their elders both past and present, as well as future generations, in whose traditional territory we are gathering.
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Thursday, Feb. 28 2019
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MOVING MAD, QUEER, AND CRIP: ARTFUL RESEARCH, and LIVING
Lindsay Eales and Danielle Peers dance a quartet that embraces critical disability and Mad theory, spoken word, dance, and film, offering critical reflections on the generative possibilities of disability and madness in the arts. Followed by a discussion with Hentyle Yapp (Art & Public Policy) and André Lepecki (Performance Studies).
Thursday, Mar. 7 2019
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Legacies of Aesthetic Concealment: Conversations with Baseera Khan
Artist Baseera Khan will show an acoustic performance of her work Braidrage, as well as Prayer Rugs, and collages, she will then talk about what happens next. In addition to her presentation, Baseera will be in conversation with B.A. Candidates Manion Khun and Akeem Muhammad to speak on the implications, effects, and processes of her work.
Friday, Mar. 8 2019
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The Plant of Dreaming
Elisa Biagini lives in Florence, Italy. She has published 7 poetry collections. Her most recent book “Da una crepa”, The Plant of Dreaming, appeared in 2017. Her 2018 selection “The guest in the wood”, Chelsea Editions, received the 2014 Best Translated Book Award. She curates community poetry installations with words and images. Her poems have been translated into multiple languages. She teaches Writing at NYU-Florence.
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Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious
A book launch & roundtable with co-editors Patricia Gherovici and Chris Christian and other contributors to the volume.
Thursday, Mar. 14 2019
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MY BUTCH CAREER: A Memoir By Esther Newton
Anthropologist Esther Newton reads from her new memoir followed by a discussion with Ann Pellegrini (Professor, Performance Studies). Moderated by Faye Ginsburg (Professor, Anthropology).
Tuesday, Mar. 26 2019
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The Calypso Craze Archive
Celebrate the publication of Shane Vogel’s Stolen Time: Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze at this showcase of the performances that shape the book. The first cultural history of the calypso craze, Stolen Timeoffers a new framework for understanding the cycles of repetition and difference that shape race, entertainment, and mass culture during the Jim Crow era and charts new forms of diasporic exchange between the US and the Caribbean. The informal discussion will feature performances by midcentury performers Maya Angelou, Geoffrey Holder, Carmen de Lavallade, Duke Ellington, Josephine Premice, and others.
Friday, Apr. 5 2019
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Hiving: Living Forms, Forms of Living
Convened and imagined by Sarah Richter and co-sponsored by the Tisch Initiative for Creative Research and the Department of Performance Studies.
Tuesday, Apr. 9 2019
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An Italian Way to Performance Studies
A Lecture by Dario Tomasello.
Friday, Apr. 12 2019
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Curating Performance
The Department of Performance Studies presents the Fourth Annual Curating Symposium: Curating Performance. This event will be followed by a book launch and celebration with NYU Press for the 10th Anniversary Edition of José Muñoz's “Cruising Utopia.”
Thursday, May. 23 2019
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Performance Studies Graduation Party
Performance Studies invites the PS class of 2019 and their families to join us for a graduation party!